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The question that’s been bugging a number of Swamplot readers: What’s planned by Fisher Homes for the .38-acre open pit now getting filled in at 829 Yale St., directly across from the company’s 3-story home office mansion? The answer: a 40-unit condo midrise branded as The Victoria. Some 2- and 3-bedroom units hit the market at the beginning of June, running between $460,900 and $835,585; a reader got some shots of the current state of construction earlier today in a morning drive-by.

A look at the floorplans of the parking-footed building’s residential floors shows off the structure’s increasingly hourglass cross-section as the viewer moves upward:

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The floorplans for those interior units don’t appear to be listed yet, but here’s the layout of one of the 2-bedroom corner spaces:

Some of the 5th floor corner units appear to get an additional upstairs master suite leading out to a rooftop terrace, providing at least the southern units with a clear view of the now-open Alexan Heights apartments and their expanded electrical substation neighbor across Yale:

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I have a question. How will they take out the trash? The alley behind the building is not accessible anymore. The building hugs the lot lines with no room for a dumpster (unless they put one right in front of the building). The garage opening is not tall enough to allow a garbage truck to enter. Will they just stack up 40 curbside trash units along Yale St.?

If I’m in one of the houses immediately behind this project, I would build a wall equal in height. The project is not appropriate for its location but then Fisher’s 3 story mansion across the street already proved its lack of taste.

If you own a house right behind this thing you lost almost all of your sun. It’s disrespectful to shove this kind of project against an otherwise quiet neighborhood street. The development itself looks ok but it’s not located in the right place. The people who own property around this thing should also have some basic protections from these type of buildings. I like to garden and this thing would wipe it out.

If you look at the brick work on the Fisher condo on Center and Studemont, you can get an idea of the quality. The building isn’t too pretty as it is, but the brick work on the first floor looks like it was laid by an amature or drunk.

Also, it doesn’t look bad to me. Is it not surrounded by multi-family and commercial business on Yale? It’s in scale with all the other new developments on Yale and the other inner loop thoroughfares. I live next to a 4-story TH and don’t understand all the horror stories. It’s really not a big deal unless you want it to be.

@sjh that’s exactly what I was thinking, the cheap junk at Studemont and Washington looks like 1/2 of this or 1/4. Check out those uneven balconies and exposed drainpipes underneath. Everything done to the lowest standard. Classic Fisher

Glad I’m not the only one re: the Center street condos. My extremely untrained eye could always tell that thing was being built cheaply/shoddily. I can’t imagine people are going to pay that much money for these… Another Tremont tower?

I’m with sjh, we were sitting at the Center/Studemont light last week and my 15 year old noticed how bad the finish work looks. I noticed one of the support columns on the South side looks about 2″ out of level leaning to the South. My customers would go through 20 rolls of blue tape just on the outside.

Terry and his son Allen are just scam artists. They take your money and run, along with giving you the poorest of quality. Save yourself the misery and DO NOT rent or buy any of their properties! Check out Morrison Heights condos as well to see what it looks like after only 4 years. Complete crap.